Monday, May 23, 2011

SCI HCL BY ONG KIAN HAN


2. As deforestation is happening in the Amazon regions, the trees are being chopped down, and the trees are the ants’ home. The plants the ants use to make their traps are also destroyed when deforestation occurs. The ants will also be less protected from their predators.
3a.
Mutualism: Between the fungus and the ants. The ants farm the fungus and the fungus provide protein to glue the structure of the trap together.
Predatory:
The ants kill the insects trapped.
Commensalism:  Between ants and the tree. The ants use the stem of the trees to construct the traps, and the tree does not stand to lose.
3b.
Commensalism
In India, lone golden jackals expelled from their pack have been known to form commensal relations with tigers
Predatory
A lion, and a deer
Parasitism
Bedbugs are parasites that feed on warm-blooded animals, preferably humans. Bedbugs infest and are transported in luggage, clothing, bedding and furniture.


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